[ti:(Lately) I've Been Thinking]
[ar:Common]
[al:America Is Dying Slowly]
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[00:00.00](Lately) I've Been Thinking - Common/Sean Lett
[00:00.70]Yeah one two bless
[00:04.60]Yeah yeah check it
[00:06.61]I got my mellow Sean Lett
[00:08.16]He gonna get down for y'all Chicago style
[00:10.58]Eighty seven you know the bidness check it
[00:13.23]After eight years of my life of
[00:14.67]Smoking and drinking
[00:15.83]The world keeps spinning
[00:17.18]So lately I've been thinking
[00:18.48]After eight years of my life of
[00:19.77]Smoking and drinking
[00:20.95]The world keeps spinning
[00:22.29]So lately I've been thinking
[00:23.27]Nearest to the go gothic
[00:24.55]A cash flow prophet
[00:26.18]Methods of gettin scratch
[00:27.42]And talkin slick I've adopted
[00:28.79]Palms in the lock with stunts whose hearts be game
[00:31.63]Hoes in the stable none do I claim
[00:33.90]Niggaz with nothin to shoot for at they only aim
[00:36.67]Gramps in the choir singin it's gonna rain
[00:39.02]In the midst of precipitation I make the power
[00:41.91]Manipulations
[00:42.76]So my offspring'll be straight for generations
[00:45.44]Got connections in the nation
[00:47.06]To incarceration to general population
[00:49.50]More lyrics than Jason
[00:50.83]Look me in the face when you speak to me
[00:53.45]You got a tattoo B**ch youse a freak to me
[00:55.84]Seeking the good sess material
[00:57.81]Asking when's my next video
[00:59.97]B**ch get a job and get your
[01:01.47]A** in somebody's university
[01:03.47]Enroll your youngun in a nursery
[01:05.36]And cleam him up comb his hair cover yourself
[01:07.77]You want a man to love
[01:08.86]You you ain't loving yourself
[01:10.17]I'm discovering wealth watches wisdom in ways
[01:12.76]To make it in the last days now bring it on
[01:25.52]I feel blessed I survived two decades in this world
[01:28.30]Then Ninety slid in naked now I got a baby girl
[01:30.79]Ain't this a b**ch myself still a child
[01:32.78]I want to hang on eighty seven
[01:34.22]Corners act wild on Stoney Isle
[01:35.94]Better school her
[01:36.72]So presence is your seed in society
[01:38.64]Parks of envy jealous niggaz crack fiends yes indeed
[01:41.47]I won't misleed and you can best believe
[01:43.53]I'm just a blink away shorty anytime that you need
[01:46.33]See I know right now
[01:47.45]You're just too young to understand
[01:48.91]Asking questions
[01:49.63]Why pops and moms don't be holding hands
[01:51.56]Don't you worry about it yet
[01:52.77]In due time we'll explain
[01:54.08]Why having you
[01:54.84]Created just an everlasting shame
[01:56.72]Bringing joy witcha smiles
[01:57.85]Tripping when you first walked
[01:59.25]Knowing somebody's child is
[02:00.48]Gettin outlined in chalk
[02:01.80]Just relieved it ain't you
[02:02.99]I got much love for you boo
[02:04.27]Cause it ain't nuthin that these
[02:05.55]Skanless niggaz in these streets
[02:06.41]Won't do
[02:07.13]Stop me if I'm lying see my race is steady dying
[02:09.52]Short methods to making cream
[02:10.87]Bullets sprays and shatters dreams
[02:12.16]See basically Chi-town's game related and designed
[02:14.79]Niggaz store up theirs and down opposite signs